Summary
Yesterday, I had just offended the spoiled princess. Today, the young general and the gentle top scholar successively declared they had fallen in love with me at first sight. I said I needed time to get to know them, but they couldn’t wait to start competing. The general taught me how to ride a horse, and the scholar recited poems for me. One sent me rare treasures every day, while the other loved to invite me to shop for rouge and cosmetics. Privately, everyone said they were making a bet, treating me as entertainment. Yet, I turned a deaf ear, accepting all their gifts without refusal. A year later, the young general was to lead troops to war, and the scholar was to go south on inspection. They held a grand and extravagant birthday banquet for me, but at the banquet, they publicly admitted they had deliberately approached me, all for the sake of